After an evaluation, GNOME has moved from Bugzilla to GitLab. Learn more about GitLab.
No new issues can be reported in GNOME Bugzilla anymore.
To report an issue in a GNOME project, go to GNOME GitLab.
Do not go to GNOME Gitlab for: Bluefish, Doxygen, GnuCash, GStreamer, java-gnome, LDTP, NetworkManager, Tomboy.
Bug 621810 - Spell check fails with the abbreviation "etc."
Spell check fails with the abbreviation "etc."
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 131576
Product: gedit-plugins
Classification: Other
Component: General
2.30.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: Gedit maintainers
Gedit maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-06-16 18:11 UTC by trogsworth
Modified: 2019-03-23 20:49 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description trogsworth 2010-06-16 18:11:16 UTC 
Trying to spell check the word "etc" gives you the option to change it to "etc.", which is correct, however, once you change it to "etc." it then underlines the "etc" part and offers it to change it again, leaving you with "etc..". Essentially the spell checker is not recognising that the word boundary is part of the word in this case.
Comment 1 Paolo Borelli 2014-08-07 20:19:30 UTC 
Sorry for the lack of replies. This is basically a very old bug which is hard to fix because we rely on pango to figure out the boundaries of the words to spell check and it has a hard time knowing that "." is an abbreviation and not the end of the sentence

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 131576 ***